Description
From the author of Untraceable, a novel about history both personal and political, and the mysteries of the past.
About the Author
Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. His novels have been translated into many languages and received great acclaim in the English-speaking world. The New York Review of Books has hailed Lebedev as 'the best of Russia's younger generation of writers'. Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature working today. She has translated over 80 works from authors such as Evgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Dovlatov and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, lives in New York City.
Reviews
Outstanding... Lebedev muses in Tolstoyan fashion about 'the energy flow of history', by which the actions of distant ancestors can fix the destinies of people hundreds of years later. Antonina W. Bouis has once again delivered a translation of determined, adamantine beauty' * Wall Street Journal *
Lebedev's latest is his most ambitious, tackling a huge swath of Russian history - from the beginning of the 19th century up to the present day - while never letting its pacy, compelling narrative flag... Brave and unflinching' * Financial Times *
Lebedev's prose is lyrical as a rule: cast in assonant patterns, attentive to rhythmic weight, responsive to the habits and desires of language. Antonina W. Bouis's translation is both faithful and inspired, spinning the story out in a tirelessly beautiful English * LA Review of Books *
Book Information
ISBN 9781800249271
Author Sergei Lebedev
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Apollo
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC